AMHERST, Mass. – The Baker-Polito administration and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center recently announced that a team led by Extension professor Dwayne Breger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been selected for a two-year award of more than $228,000.

AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a new study by ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that 1,330 nurseries, garden centers and online retailers are still offering hundreds of invasive plant species as ornamental garden plants. This includes 20 species that are illegal to grow or sell nationwide.

Neuroscience and behavior Ph.D. student Mélise Edwards and her advisor, Professor Agnès Lacreuse, are among the 50 winners of this year’s Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study for dissertation adviser–graduate student pairs.

The UMass Dartmouth Interior Architecture + Design program recently received re-accreditation from the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, the internationally recognized industry standard that identifies programs that deliver academic excellence.

Second-year UMass Law student was recently chosen as the Law Student Division Liaison to the national American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence. For more than two decades, the Commission has worked to increase access to justice for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking by connecting them with legal professionals.

Associate Professor Dr. Hua Fang (Computer & Information Science) was recently awarded $2,735,127 as part of a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project Grant (R01). Dr. Fang’s award for her research project titled “iPAT: Intelligent diet quality pattern analysis for harmonized MA-National trials,” is the first R01 grant in the history of UMass Dartmouth and Dr. Fang’s second such honor. The R01 grant program was created to support health-related research and is the oldest grant mechanism used by NIH.

Convenient, rapid and affordable COVID-19 testing technology is getting a widespread community try-out through the COVID-19 Test Us program, part of the National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative, or RADx initiative. Underway since spring 2020, RADx has expanded innovation and increased availability of tests, while ensuring the reach of testing to underserved populations.